{"id":14957,"date":"2026-08-09T12:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14957"},"modified":"2026-08-09T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:21:28","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-175","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14957","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 6 movies last week:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077280\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Buddy Holly Story\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-1-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31728330\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2-1-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"They Will Kill You\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2-1-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2-1-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2-1-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2-1-1036x1536.jpg 1036w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2-1-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2-1-scaled.jpg 1727w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050407\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3-1-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Forty Guns\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3-1-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3-1-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3-1-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3-1-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3-1.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077280\/\">The Buddy Holly Story<\/a> is a very by-the-numbers musical biopic, almost a little boring\u2014which is maybe inevitable given the unfortunate shortness of the man&#8217;s life, the full potential of his musical career never reached\u2014but Gary Busey is terrific enough in the title role to forgive all of that.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31728330\/\">They Will Kill You<\/a> successfully pulls off everything it&#8217;s trying to do, and sometimes just throws stylized shots on the screen for their own sake, but it&#8217;s energetic, often clever, and a lot of fun.\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I was maybe impressed with, more than engaged by, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050407\/\">Forty Guns<\/a>, but it&#8217;s hard to deny the strength of the performances and simple effectiveness of Samuel Fuller&#8217;s direction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt34685692\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4-1-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"Over Your Dead Body\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4-1-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4-1-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4-1-768x1127.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4-1-1047x1536.jpg 1047w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4-1-1396x2048.jpg 1396w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4-1-scaled.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032416\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Kildare&#039;s Strange Case\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7323600\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hagazussa\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6-1383x2048.jpg 1383w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt34685692\/\">Over Your Dead Body<\/a> is sometimes very funny, but it never quite figures out its tone, or a reason to care about the two leads coming together.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>MGM made nine Dr. Kildare movies in five years, so despite their charms, it&#8217;s no wonder they feel by turn a little thin, a little padded, and a little repetitive. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032416\/\">Dr. Kildare&#8217;s Strange Case<\/a> is no exception, except here the medicine feels especially hokey and dated.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7323600\/\">Hagazussa<\/a> is deeply weird and unsettling, slow to the point of ponderous, more mood than plot, never what you would call <em>fun<\/em>, and often genuinely disturbing, and yet it really got under its skin, and that mood worked on me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 6 movies last week: The Buddy Holly Story is a very by-the-numbers musical biopic, almost a little boring\u2014which is maybe inevitable given the unfortunate shortness of the man&#8217;s life, the full potential of his musical career never reached\u2014but Gary Busey is terrific enough in the title role to forgive all of that. I&#8217;m &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14957\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14965,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14957\/revisions\/14965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}